by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 31, 2013 | Opinion
A brief hodgepodge of thoughts on this Labor Day weekend … Food: Homeless folk in Raleigh will be a bit less hungry this weekend. After getting a major earful from concerned citizens at a meeting on Wednesday, the City Council agreed to allow charity workers to...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 25, 2013 | Opinion
… and their callousness. Hugh Hollowell and other workers with “Love Wins” speak to a police officer who would not allow them to distribute food to the homeless. I was surprised, if not shocked, to learn that the city police in Raleigh, N. C., are...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 23, 2013 | Opinion
North Carolina’s governor Pat McCrory has called for the legislature to return to Raleigh for a special session to deal with two bills he vetoed, one a discriminatory demand that some welfare applicants be tested for drugs and the other an immigration bill that...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 21, 2013 | Opinion
Anyone who’s watched much television preaching or visited certain churches has certainly run across someone promoting the prosperity gospel, the notion that God wants to make us all rich so we can be an example of divine beneficence to others. It’s...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 16, 2013 | Opinion
Campbell University held its faculty orientation August 15, and change was in the air. The new School of Osteopathic Medicine has opened, for one thing, to much fanfare. The afternoon session was held in one of the two high-tech 200-seat classrooms in the new...
